HENRIETTA – On the gravel Ray County Jail parking lot, Sheriff’s Detective Mark Crawford stood alongside a newly acquired mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle. Known to military members as an MRAP, the armored personnel carrier is designed to protect people as they move into hostile territory. “This particular one was deployed through the Air Force initially over in Kuwait,” Crawford, who served in the military during Operation Desert Storm, said. “It would have been considered an up-armored vehicle.” Up-armored vehicles are reinforced to reduce the threat of being pierced by bullets and shrapnel from explosive devices. After Saddam Hussein had ordered his Iraqi troops to attack neighboring Kuwait in 1990, the desert wars began. During those conflicts, the U.S. military’s vehicles needed more bullet-stopping power, leading to up-armoring. “In my day, we had to weld plates of steel onto (vehicles) and put flak jackets in our Humvees. Yes, they were considered armored vehicles, but…